Things to love/hate about the premiership

Spiritoftheseventies

Okay this to lighten things up a bit.

Things to hate about the premiership.
!. How like goalscorers run away from players who are trying to celebrate with them.
2. Goalscorers claiming the credit for wicked deflections.
3. Matt Holland's new look (pencil thin moustaches went out in the fifities matt)
4. Defenders who dont get the basic things right like picking up their markers.
5. How rte presenters always slip in silly sarcastic jokes on the Premiership.
6. How Cunningham always feels the need to make eye contact with Whelan
7. How Whelan looks impassively in to space as Cunningham tries to make compact.
8. Diving
9. Fans showing off their five bellies on the coldest days of the year (god I miss newcastle)
10. Teams who give their fans an unrealistic sense of belief and how fans of series teams have to put it up with it till March when the cream inevitably rises to the top


Things to love about the Premiership.
1. Moments like the balloon gate affair.
2. Andy Reid's current form.
3. Torres and the way he heads the ball.
4. Gerrard's thirty yard screamers.

eddiehead

Chelsea fans love.....
Drogba
Terry
A. Cole

Everybody else hates....
Drogba
Terry
A. Cole

Spiritoftheseventies

Hate
Games where teams park the team bus in front of goal.
50 yard throw ins

loved
goals from the half way line by Alonso
Boxing day fixtures of old.
Alan Green on five live. opinionated but still great

Xavi6

bayviewclose wrote: »

Hate Love
Games where teams park the team bus in front of goal.
50 yard throw ins

The art of defending a lead is often criticised. I love it.

Also, if you've got a long throw in then use it. Maybe we should hate players with good long shots as well.

CR 7

eddiehead wrote: »

Chelsea fans love.....
Drogba
Terry
A. Cole

Everybody else hates....
Drogba
Terry
A. Cole

And J. Cole and Ballack too.:P

Bandit12

Hate....Sky Sports
Diving
Wags
Plastic fans and flags
Agents

Love....Actually being at a game (away games usually)

Theresalwaysone

Cant understand people hating Sky Sports. They do by far the most professional and comprehensive coverage of matches.

mike65

Hate

"Sky Sport Generation" types who couldn't tell you who Brian Clough was until the film came out.
Agents
Ex-players who have no great insight but who are given creedence as sages cos they are on the telly.
Wages (see agents)
Managers who refuse to stop talking gibberish when they loose.
WAGS and Bling (see wages)
Diving, feigning injury, sneaky OTT elbows and kicks

Love

Wholesome defending in depth
A devastating counter attacking, from goalmouth to goalmouth ending with a goal in 30 seconds
Sweet volleys that make the keeper look stupid
Managers who know their onions but are modest with it.

stovelid

Hate:

The palaver. Average games tarted up with one hundred and twenty six cameras.

The promotion of football as primarily a TV-based activity.

The money: Wags, average players on a fortune thinking they're the business and lower-income families being priced out of the games.

The desperate unfairness: the dwindling chance that the majority of clubs - excepting a takeover by Arab tycoons or despots - will ever have a sniff of success. The near-death of the romantic idea that a smaller club would be able to fashion together a team with canny buys and youth (and keep it together long enough) to win the league.

The diving, gamesmanship and other girly stuff you see every weekend.

Loves

Football generally: for all the bad, it's still there and that is good enough in itself.

Smegball

Love United

Hate Liverpool

:pac: :pac: :pac:

leninbenjamin

Love:
Watching Arsenal passing the ball around the box

Hate:
Watching Arsenal passing the ball around the box

flahavaj

Hate:

Diving/feigning injury
Blinkered fanboys who will hear no bad said about their club.
The way money has become the god of the Premier League

Love:

Jimmy Bullard
Legends and brilliant pros like Giggs and Scholes.

joe123

Hate the way sky sports build up every game as if its "Super Sunday spectactular extravaganza not to be missed clash of the titans" when its Portsmouth v Bolton etc

eddiehead

Love
-Jimmy Bullard
-Arsenal entertaining us all with their football
-Liverpool entertaining us all with everything but their football
-Kammy
-Early Saturday kick-off's when your off work
-Watching Fergie flip the lid when a ref has the audacity to award something against United
-Fernando Torres
-Watching Berbatov control a ball that looks like it could have been dropped from the moon
-The unbelievable capacity of Michael Essiens pocket
-West Ham's youth system
-Paul Scholes & Ryan Giggs, two testaments to professionalism at the highest level
-Arsene Wengers jedi like scouting ability
-Burnley at home
-Magic Rafa
-Sky Sports professional and comprehensive coverage
-Sir Alex Ferguson

Hate
-"Just fizzed past the post"
-Inconsistant referees
-That pompey clown with the bell
-Fergie Time
-Knowing in August who the top four will be
-"Rooooneeeeeeeyyyy" regardless of what he does on the ball
-Debt
-The sh1te weather in the winter months
-Joe "The one man show" Cole always being injured
-Parking the bus
-Lack of Mourinho
-The gap between the top clubs and the rest
-Drogba's antics
-Phil Brown singing
-Fickle supporters
-Sir Alex Ferguson

Warper

Love:

- the passion and the rivalry
- PL fantasy football

Hate:

- Sky Sports commentary team/pundits
- The diving and then Sky blaming the "foreigners" for bringing it into England - just look at Rooney yesterday and the likes of Gerrard
- The over-hyping of Arsenal's kids who never grow up
- The technical side of the game or lack of it

G1032

Hate
Alan Hansen, Alan Shearer, Mark Lawrenson and their appalling analysis.
Phil Brown
Hull
Spurs
Arry Redknapp
Jamie Redknapp
Sky Sports', BBC's blissful ignorance at the fact that Gerrard and Rooney are the worst offenders for diving
Mark Hughes

Love
Seeing United and Chelsea get beaten.

Theresalwaysone

joe123 wrote: »

Hate the way sky sports build up every game as if its "Super Sunday spectactular extravaganza not to be missed clash of the titans" when its Portsmouth v Bolton etc

This **** tilts the fook outta me. Hallmark of idiots everywhere.

The way they build it up is precisely what watching football should be all about. Excitement, rivalry, competition, entertainment.

You're showing serious disrespect to the two teams featured as well.

Another thing while I'm here.

This "I hate the Sky Sports Generation" bull**** people come out with. You might as well say, "I hate the youth of today for being young". Its bloody ridiculous.

3hn2givr7mx1sc

Hate:
Glazer family.
Abramovich.
City's Arab family.
Liverpool FC.
Jason Cundy on SSN when Chelsea do anything.
Yellow cards for celebrating.
Bitching to the referee.
Rafa Benitez.
Chelsea FC.
Portsmouth's bell fan and their shítty songs.
Leeds Utd not being there anymore, ya miss them when they're not there.
Arsene Wenger.

Love:
People hating Sir Alex then him proving them all wrong.
Ryan Giggs, Gary Neville and Paul Scholes.
Jeff Stelling and Chris Kamara.
Live games.
Consistent referees.
West Ham's youth academy.
Leeds being United's feeder club.:pac:

3hn2givr7mx1sc

Theresalwaysone wrote: »

This **** tilts the fook outta me. Hallmark of idiots everywhere.

The way they build it up is precisely what watching football should be all about. Excitement, rivalry, competition, entertainment.

You're showing serious disrespect to the two teams featured as well.

Another thing while I'm here.

This "I hate the Sky Sports Generation" bull**** people come out with. You might as well say, "I hate the youth of today for being young". Its bloody ridiculous.

I've highlighted the three main words for you there. Excitement and entertainment are gone straight away, Portsmouth and Bolton are two park the bus teams. They are at opposite ends of England, there's the rivalry bit gone.

Lands Leaving

Hate:
Over inflated transfer fees and wages killing off top level competition from new teams
Chelsea actually being successful
Sky costing so much!
ESPN taking good games (like Villa UNited)
Teams that play too defensively
Lack of video replays
Craig Bellamy
Lack of superstar transfers lately

Love:
Watching Villa, Arsenal, United and Man City
Stoke, Burnley, Sunderland, etc. doing so well
Phil Brown
High goals to games ratio compared to other leagues
Attacking play
No more Cristiano Ronaldo!
Everton playing through the injury crisis with a lad from Sligo Rovers.
Cesc Fabregas almost single handedly making Arsenal incredible to watch
Wenger saying welllllll before every sentence
Fregie vs. the bbc
Richard Dunne going to Villa and being better than Toure and Lescott combined
Martin O'Neill ('I haven;t enjoyed a game in 20 years)
The match of the day tune
Long throws
Mick McCarthy in the top flight
Roy Hodgson, great man

cson

@baz2009

Wait a minute; you hate Liverpool, Chelsea, Wenger and miss Leeds but the only thing you don't like about City is their Arab family?

You're a Man Utd fan right? :pac:

Warper

Theresalwaysone wrote: »

This **** tilts the fook outta me. Hallmark of idiots everywhere.

The way they build it up is precisely what watching football should be all about. Excitement, rivalry, competition, entertainment.

You're showing serious disrespect to the two teams featured as well.

Another thing while I'm here.

This "I hate the Sky Sports Generation" bull**** people come out with. You might as well say, "I hate the youth of today for being young". Its bloody ridiculous.

Sky do a great job with their coverage of football - thats true. What annoys people is the over-hype of a meaningless match between 2 mid-table teams from wherever. Sky would advertise it as if its a WC Final while in general people wouldnt give a flying fcuk about it and this is from all the Leagues in England not just the PL. The worst thing about Sky is there is never a bad game or even an average game. You could be watching the most boring 0-0 of all time and the Sky analysis would be saying its a fascinating game. Then you have to listen Jamie "never criticise anyone" Redknapp at half-time saying how wonderful the English game is and how it is the best League in the World. People are not idiots - we know if its a crap game or not so why not just say it like on other channels.

The ones that buy into this crap are the idiots.

Spiritoftheseventies

Xavi6 wrote: »

The art of defending a lead is often criticised. I love it.

Also, if you've got a long throw in then use it. Maybe we should hate players with good long shots as well.

Yes still remember where i was when that long throw in went straight back into the net. Not!

3hn2givr7mx1sc

cson wrote: »

@baz2009

Wait a minute; you hate Liverpool, Chelsea, Wenger and miss Leeds but the only thing you don't like about City is their Arab family?

You're a Man Utd fan right? :pac:

Awh fcuk I knew I forgot something.:o

eddiehead

Am I the only one who thinks mentioning specific clubs on your hate list is a bit silly? At least give a reason...
Liverpool playing ugly football
Chelsea buying success
United having ref's in their pocket
etc etc..

3hn2givr7mx1sc

eddiehead wrote: »

Am I the only one who thinks mentioning specific clubs on your hate list is a bit silly? At least give a reason...
Liverpool playing ugly football
Chelsea buying success
United having ref's in their pocket
etc etc..

Not since Fergie's fitness comment.
And you just wanted to get a sly dig at United.

1mcampo1

HATE
Andy Gray talking out his arse...

Love
Eamon Dunphy's analysis
Games with a few goals in it
Nutmeg's!

Spiritoftheseventies

1mcampo1 wrote: »

HATE Andy Gray talking out his arse...

each poster must post two loves. Not a hate thread per se and its not a team hating thread. Keep it on the light side lads.

Jako8

Hate:
Diving.
Players who care more about their appearance than the football they play.(For more info see: El Hadji Diouf)
Pundits who think every word that comes out of their mouth is the height of footballing knowledge.
Plastic flags. (For more info see: Stamford Bridge)
Sir Alex Ferguson
Phil Brown

Love:
The fixtures over Christmas.
Banter with other fans.
Seeing the underdog win.
Jeff Stelling.
Liverpool winning.

Xavi6

baz2009 wrote: »

I've highlighted the three main words for you there. Excitement and entertainment are gone straight away, Portsmouth and Bolton are two park the bus teams. They are at opposite ends of England, there's the rivalry bit gone.

Hmmmm maybe that shouldn't have been posted directly after a game in which they scored three times and defended abysmally.

bayviewclose wrote: »

Yes still remember where i was when that long throw in went straight back into the net. Not!

Of course you don't, cause it wouldn't have counted.

You don't remember any of the havoc Rory Delap caused last season? I'm pretty sure there are Arsenal defenders that do.

g-whizz

Love
Sir Alex
Anelka
Bullard
MOTD
soccer am
Scholes and Giggs
Sorenson
Jassekalainien

Hate
Diving
Drogba
Eduardo
Phil Brown
Fans in Ireland who proclaim their undying love for one of the big four, while probably never been at a game!
"Should have bent his run!"
Andy Johnson... useless

NukaCola

Theresalwaysone wrote: »

This **** tilts the fook outta me. Hallmark of idiots everywhere.

The way they build it up is precisely what watching football should be all about. Excitement, rivalry, competition, entertainment.

You're showing serious disrespect to the two teams featured as well.

Another thing while I'm here.

This "I hate the Sky Sports Generation" bull**** people come out with. You might as well say, "I hate the youth of today for being young". Its bloody ridiculous.

Calm down, you dont actually have to be angry whilst posting :P

GLaDOS

A lot of this stuff is part of modern football as a whole and not unique to the premiership.

Nemanja91

LOVE

Nemanja Vidic
Everything Utd except ben foster

Hate
Rafa
Liverpool complaining when they are missing 1 player
Everything liverpool
Drogba
Man City

Spiritoftheseventies

Hate
Phone in shows. Same old same old

Love
High scoring games. Liverpool 4 Newcastle 3 a classic
Liverpool comebacks

Col200sx

LOVE:
Watching Arsenal playing
Getting an unexpected result (being an Everton fan you'll understand)
Jeff Stelling
Martin O'Neill talking absolute sense every time he's interviewed
Evertons never ending injury crisis this season

HATE:
Merseyside derbies, not good for the heart
Pussy footballers who go down like they're shot, Drogba springs to mind
Managers "not seeing" the controversial event in the match
Sky Sports over-enthusiastic coverage of the Premier League
People still calling it "The Premiership". It's not called that any more folks, it's the Premier League;)

ragg

Love:

The hype

Hate:

The hype

:pac:

Spiritoftheseventies

love
Days like these

Hate
Days like these (today especially)

joe123

Theresalwaysone wrote: »

This **** tilts the fook outta me. Hallmark of idiots everywhere.

The way they build it up is precisely what watching football should be all about. Excitement, rivalry, competition, entertainment.

You're showing serious disrespect to the two teams featured as well.

Another thing while I'm here.

This "I hate the Sky Sports Generation" bull**** people come out with. You might as well say, "I hate the youth of today for being young". Its bloody ridiculous.

Bloody hell calm down. I thought this thread was only a bit of fun. If things like this set you off on one Im glad I dont know you in real life!

All im saying is they hype these games up as if they are what everyone has been waiting for all year. Il still watch them but I dont expect it to be the greatest match il ever see!

You say "hallmark of idiots everywhere" but are you not the idiot if you believe that a portsmouth v Bolton really is what Sky try and make it out to be?

orourkeda

Things to Hate.
1.Liverpool
2.Liverpool Players
3.Liverpool Managers
4.Liverpool Fans
5.Liverpool Tactics and Style of Play.
6.Anfield
7.Jamie Redknapp
8.Fans who know Jacksh*t about the game offering tactical analysis to make themselves look knowledgable, while in reality most people within earshot would just like to punch them.

Things to Like
1. Used to be away trips to Newcastle.
2. Cheap Beer (cheap compared to Ireland)

monkey9

orourkeda wrote: »

Things to Hate.
1.Liverpool
2.Liverpool Players
3.Liverpool Managers
4.Liverpool Fans
5.Liverpool Tactics and Style of Play.
6.Anfield
7.Jamie Redknapp
8.Fans who know Jacksh*t about the game offering tactical analysis to make themselves look knowledgable, while in reality most people within earshot would just like to punch them.

Things to Like
1. Used to be away trips to Newcastle.
2. Cheap Beer (cheap compared to Ireland)

Just come on out of the closet and kiss the liverbird!!

GO'S

Love:

• Last day of season
• all the people on soccer saturday
• Footy chants

Hate:

• Liverpool
• Diving
• glen johnsons hair due

stovelid

Theresalwaysone wrote: »

The way they build it up is precisely what watching football should be all about. Excitement, rivalry, competition, entertainment.

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Theresalwaysone wrote: »

This "I hate the Sky Sports Generation" bull**** people come out with. You might as well say, "I hate the youth of today for being young". Its bloody ridiculous.

orourkeda

monkey9 wrote: »

Just come on out of the closet and kiss the liverbird!!

Kiss The Arse(nal)

Photi

Love

The Football.

Hate.

The self perpetuating, never ending, media infused soap opera which encircles the whole thing.

Liam O

Love: the fact that the OP is clearly talking about RTE's Premier Soccer Saturday show which is formerly the premiership and that every reply is off topic. Where's the modding?

applehunter

Love: The all action style football that is played
Local rivalries
Traditional Saturday afternoons
Football under the floodlights


Hate :
The mega money that has turned the game into a circus
People with poor English, speaking about the game in an expert capacity on television.
Ticket Prices
Sky dictating kick off times
Money dictating everything

JerryHandbag

Love:
4-4 draws from a neutral point of view
The occasional class goal celebration - Cheers Jimmy Bullard
United usually winning it or thereabouts
Eamon Dunphys rants on....well, everything

Hate:
Diving & Cheating....Rooney, Drogba, Gerrard, Eduardo.....hang your heads
Wolves vs Stoke
Andy Gray
Soccer A.M.

Gavin "shels"

Col200sx wrote: »

People still calling it "The Premiership". It's not called that any more folks, it's the Premier League;)

Well it's actually called the English Premier League.;)

copacetic

Gavin shels wrote: »

Well it's actually called the English Premier League.;)

No, it's not. It's called the Barclays Premier League.

bUILDERtHEbOB

Hate - 90% of 'big 4' club's fans, the Pompey bell ringer, the hypocrisy over diving depending on the nationality of a player, the media, people who have achieved nothing in the game as managers getting sly digs and slating managers who actually have.

Love - Libpool FC